Chapter Summaries

Dai Chengfeng endured the Emperor Blood Tiger’s resentment and fused its 1,500-year Spirit Ring, gaining a powerful Second Soul Skill. He and Zhu Fan prepared to return to the battlefield, where Dai Chengfeng planned to reveal the Emperor White Tiger’s true form.

• Dai Chengfeng withstood the Emperor Blood Tiger’s resentment for roughly two hours and successfully fused its Spirit Ring.
• Dai Chengfeng named his Second Soul Skill White Emperor Domain and summoned a majestic white tiger avatar that radiated an imperial aura.
• Zhu Fan discovered that Dai Chengfeng’s skill slightly enhanced every attribute and learned that the avatar could grow real by devouring killing intent.
• Dai Chengfeng explained that his skill’s true power was the Emperor White Tiger Avatar, then said he would return to Wu Ping City and sweep everything away.
• Zhu Fan agreed to return with Dai Chengfeng, eager to see the avatar’s true form on the battlefield.

Dai Chengfeng returned to Wu'an City and prepared a surprise assault on Wu Ping City, ordering Zhu Fan to seize its North Gate while the main army followed. He rallied Wu'an's soldiers by invoking the 2,862 dead from the Wu'an Blood War and led them north to seek revenge.

• Dai Chengfeng returned to Wu'an City with Zhu Fan and confirmed that Zhu Yan had completed the preparations.
• Dai Chengfeng revealed the secret tunnel beneath the City Lord's room and ordered Zhu Fan to lead two hundred men through it to hold Wu Ping City's North Gate.
• Dai Chengfeng ordered Zhu Yan to assemble Wu'an's troops at the Weiling Stele and seal the city's exits.
• Dai Chengfeng rallied the assembled soldiers by naming the 2,862 who died in the Wu'an Blood War and calling for revenge against the Heaven Dou Empire.
• As heavy rain fell, Dai Chengfeng led the furious army toward Wu Ping City.

Zhu Fan launched a surprise attack on Wu Ping City's northern gate while Dai Chengfeng led a ten-thousand-strong army through the storm. The chapter ended with Dai Chengfeng charging to reinforce Zhu Fan as the main force raced toward the city.

• Zhu Fan appeared behind Wu Ping City's gate guards, revealed himself as a Soul Douluo, and killed them with his Nether Flash.
• Zhu Fan praised Dai Chengfeng's plan to use road construction to distract the city's defenders while concealing their true strategy.
• Zhu Fan ordered two hundred Vanguard Death Soldiers to help him hold the northern gate for half an hour.
• A scout reported Zhu Fan's attack to Dai Chengfeng, who ordered the army to charge toward Wu Ping City and reinforce him.

Zhu Fan and the Vanguard Death Soldiers held Wu Ping City's north gate as Li Jinglong realized Dai Chengfeng had deceived him with the road-building ruse and a secret tunnel attack. The approaching Wu'an City army arrived in black armor, leaving Li Jinglong's forces facing a new assault.

• Zhu Fan and two hundred Vanguard Death Soldiers fought to hold Wu Ping City's north gate against Li Jinglong's reinforcements.
• Li Jinglong ordered the other gates secured and concentrated the city's forces at the north gate, then learned the attackers had appeared without warning.
• Li Jinglong realized Wu'an City had used a secret tunnel and that the road repairs were a smokescreen devised by Dai Chengfeng.
• Li Jinglong ordered his soldiers to retake the north gate within the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Li Jinglong spotted Wu'an City's black-armored army approaching through the rain, and its horns sounded as the troops called for blood debts to be repaid.

Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan led the Star Luo army into Wu Ping City after capturing its North Gate, while Li Jinglong rallied the Heaven Dou defenders. Dai Chengfeng unleashed his White Emperor Domain and slaughtered enemy soldiers as the Emperor White Tiger absorbed killing aura, but a flaming claw suddenly struck toward his heart.

• Li Jinglong refused to surrender and led his soldiers down from the walls to fight the invading Star Luo army.
• Dai Chengfeng thanked the surviving Vanguard Death Soldiers for their sacrifice, then ordered them to rest while he and Zhu Fan charged into Wu Ping City.
• Dai Chengfeng used his killing intent to freeze an enemy soldier and knocked him from his horse.
• Dai Chengfeng activated the White Emperor Domain, strengthening himself and drawing slaughter aura into the Emperor White Tiger phantom.
• Dai Chengfeng fought through the Heaven Dou formation as the tiger absorbed slaughter aura, until Zhu Fan warned him of a flaming claw aimed at his heart.

Dai Chengfeng summoned his Emperor White Tiger Avatar to survive Li Jinglong’s close-range attack, then revealed a thousand-year purple second soul ring that shocked the Soul King. Li Jinglong ordered the Heaven Dou Empire army to retreat to Golden Citadel Pass.

• Dai Chengfeng summoned the Emperor White Tiger Avatar, which blocked Li Jinglong’s flaming fox claw and helped him evade a spear strike.
• Dai Chengfeng empowered the avatar with Innate Geng Metal Qi and retreated to Zhu Fan as Li Jinglong struggled to break through its defenses.
• Li Jinglong noticed Dai Chengfeng’s purple second soul ring and recognized it as a thousand-year ring, then attacked with his Fourth Soul Skill.
• Dai Chengfeng ordered the Emperor White Tiger to fire a killing-aura orb, and the clash sent Li Jinglong sliding back while Dai Chengfeng returned safely to Zhu Fan.
• Li Jinglong acknowledged Dai Chengfeng’s strength and ordered the Heaven Dou Empire soldiers to retreat to Golden Citadel Pass.

Dai Chengfeng’s Star Luo forces captured Wu Ping City after crushing the Heaven Dou army, and Zhu Fan killed its commander, Li Jinglong. With his vengeance fulfilled, Dai Chengfeng prepared to travel to Heaven Dou in search of an Immortal Herb to evolve his Martial Soul.

• Li Jinglong ordered the Heaven Dou soldiers to retreat toward Golden Citadel Pass, and Dai Chengfeng sent Zhu Yan to pursue them while making clear that he wanted no prisoners to surrender.
• Zhu Yan led the pursuit, while Li Jinglong stayed behind in Wu Ping City and challenged Zhu Fan to delay the Star Luo forces.
• Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan saluted Li Jinglong before Zhu Fan used his Eighth Soul Skill, Nether Blade, to kill him.
• Dai Chengfeng put Li Jinglong’s helmet back on, promised not to slaughter Wu Ping City’s people if they did not resist, and ordered his uncle to bury the general properly.
• Dai Chengfeng declared Wu Ping City part of the Star Luo Empire and set out for Heaven Dou to find an Immortal Herb that could help evolve his White Tiger Martial Soul.

Dai An and Zhu Hongxiu received news that Dai Chengfeng had captured Wu Ping City with an ingenious strategy and remarkably few losses. Dai Mubai, jealous of his fourth brother’s success, declared that Dai Chengfeng had been wrong, and Dai An asked him to explain.

• Zhu Hongxiu urged Dai An to bring Dai Chengfeng back from Wu'an City, while Dai Mubai silently brooded over his brother and his own grievances.
• A Silver Armor Guard delivered an emergency dispatch from Wu'an City, and Dai An feared that Dai Chengfeng had entered battle before his preparations were complete.
• Dai An read that Dai Chengfeng had spent nearly six months planning, captured Wu Ping City with ten thousand soldiers, and killed more than twenty thousand enemies while losing fewer than a thousand men.
• Dai An praised Dai Chengfeng’s tactic of repairing the road to mislead the enemy before entering through the city gates, and Zhu Hongxiu celebrated their son’s success.
• Dai Mubai stepped forward and claimed that Dai Chengfeng had been wrong, prompting Dai An to ask him where his brother had erred.

Dai Mubai argued that Dai Chengfeng had made two mistakes by attacking Wu Ping City, but Dai An condemned him for disparaging the fallen soldiers and mistaking restraint for strength. Dai An sent him to kneel in the Ancestral Hall, leaving Mubai convinced that his father favored Chengfeng and determined to surpass him.

• Dai Mubai told Dai An that Dai Chengfeng had erred by attacking Wu Ping City without orders and provoking the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall.
• Dai Mubai argued that the Star Luo Empire should have endured the attack because it was weaker than Spirit Hall, and Zhu Hongxiu tried to stop him.
• Dai An slapped Dai Mubai and rebuked him for calling the soldiers who died defending Wu'an City mere rabble.
• Dai An declared that Chengfeng had done what he himself wanted to do, praised the Empire's strength, and ordered Mubai to kneel in the Ancestral Hall until he understood.
• Dai Mubai left feeling wronged and vowed to prove that he would surpass Dai Chengfeng.

Dai Chengfeng left Wu Ping City with Zhu Fan to travel to the Heaven Dou Empire, hoping to obtain Immortal Herbs and a better third Soul Skill. He also left behind plans for a major irrigation project that could strengthen the Star Luo Empire, while he and Zhu Fan rode toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Zhu Fan reported that helping Wu Ping City's residents control the flood had won their gratitude and prevented unrest.
• Dai Chengfeng explained that he needed to reach the Heaven Dou Empire to seek Immortal Herbs and choose a third Soul Skill beyond White Tiger Vajra Transformation.
• Zhu Fan agreed to accompany Dai Chengfeng, and the two left Wu Ping City after Dai Chengfeng wrote a message and left a waterworks diagram for Zhu Yan.
• Zhu Yan discovered that Dai Chengfeng had gone to the Heaven Dou Empire and read his plans for the Dujiangyan Irrigation Project, which could prevent floods and greatly increase the empire's farmland and grain stores.
• Sixty li outside Wu Ping City, Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan continued through the forest toward the Star Dou Great Forest.

Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan entered the Star Dou Great Forest to evade the Star Luo Emperor’s likely attempt to stop their journey to Heaven Dou. That night, Dai Chengfeng confronted and refined the battlefield killing aura, reaching rank 24 and discovering a strange wisp of ultimate darkness.

• Dai Chengfeng explained that he and Zhu Fan had to travel through the forest because the Star Luo Emperor would likely intercept them on the main road.
• Dai Chengfeng began refining the killing aura in his Spirit Sea and was swept into a blood-colored space with a mysterious God Seat.
• Dai Chengfeng summoned his White Tiger Spirit and threw a Gold-Red Blood Spear through the God Seat, breaking it apart.
• The killing aura submitted to Dai Chengfeng, who refined it and raised his Soul Power to rank 24.
• Dai Chengfeng noticed a strange wisp of ultimate darkness in his hand.

Dai Chengfeng discovered that destroying the God Seat had left him with a wisp of Asura Power, which he believed could serve as a powerful trump card. The next morning, he and Zhu Fan entered the Star Dou Great Forest, unaware that black-clad pursuers had found their campsite and followed them.

• Dai Chengfeng recognized the unfamiliar energy within him as Asura Power absorbed when he destroyed the God Seat.
• Dai Chengfeng celebrated his new trump card, then resumed cultivating because he considered Soul Power his foundation.
• The next morning, Zhu Fan warned Dai Chengfeng that the greatest danger in the Star Dou Great Forest was the human heart.
• Dai Chengfeng followed Zhu Fan into the forest.
• A group of black-clad men found the pair's fresh tracks at their campsite and chased after them.

Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan discovered they were being followed through the Star Dou Great Forest by the emperor’s Shadow Kill Guard. Shadow Three revealed that he had come on the Star Luo Emperor’s orders to deliver several martial arts manuals, leaving Dai Chengfeng shocked by the Great Sumeru Hammer Technique Record among them.

• Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan traveled through the Star Dou Great Forest while Dai Chengfeng used Microscopic Perception to detect faint Soul Power fluctuations.
• Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan hid by an ancient tree and realized that the men in black following them had been discovered.
• The Black-Clad Leader discussed capturing Dai Chengfeng at night so Zhu Fan would have to obey the emperor’s orders.
• Dai Chengfeng confronted the men, and Zhu Fan identified their leader as Shadow Three, vice leader of the Shadow Kill Guard.
• Shadow Three greeted Dai Chengfeng as the Fourth Prince and presented several manuals sent by the Star Luo Emperor.
• Dai Chengfeng recognized the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and Great Sumeru Hammer Technique Record among the books and reacted in shock.

Dai Chengfeng used a wisp of Asura Power to frighten Shadow Three and escape with Zhu Fan into the Star Dou Great Forest. After revealing the power to his uncle, he prepared to inspect the books he had taken from the palace.

• Dai Chengfeng recognized the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and Great Sumeru Hammer books, then took them from Shadow Three while refusing to return to the palace.
• Dai Chengfeng pointed Asura Power at Shadow Three, who released him and retreated in terror, allowing Zhu Fan to carry Dai Chengfeng away.
• Shadow Three chose not to pursue Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan, deciding instead to report what had happened to His Majesty.
• After they shook off their pursuers, Dai Chengfeng showed Zhu Fan the Asura Power and said he had cultivated it himself.
• Dai Chengfeng took out the books to examine them, and a pink envelope fell from the tray.

Dai Chengfeng read a letter from his mother and found encouragement in her concern for his safety. He studied the Great Sumeru Hammer Technique *Record and decided to use it as a reference for creating a Soul Skill of his own.

• Dai Chengfeng recognized his mother's Celadon Orchid Fragrance and read her letter urging him to return safely while revealing his father had given him the best Self-Created Soul Skill books.
• Dai Chengfeng resolved to grow stronger for his family and examined several Soul Skill books, deciding not to waste time learning too many techniques.
• Dai Chengfeng concluded that the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer was a Dai Family technique inspired by the Clear Sky Sect's hammer method.
• Dai Chengfeng discovered that the Great Sumeru Hammer Technique *Record detailed its moves, Ring Detonation, and Tang Hao's battle against Qian Xunji.
• Dai Chengfeng decided to combine the record with his knowledge and memories to create a Soul Skill suited to himself.

Dai Chengfeng studied the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and the Great Sumeru Hammer as he searched for a way to create his own top-tier Soul Skill, but he made no breakthrough. Near the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest, he and Zhu Fan found a Heaven Dou Imperial Academy student healing a woman who fought a demon wolf.

• Dai Chengfeng refined his simulated Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer until it resembled the original by roughly eighty to ninety percent, then planned to use it as the basis for a unique Soul Skill.
• Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan continued through the Star Dou Great Forest after Zhu Fan confirmed they would soon reach the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dai Chengfeng noticed the forest was unusually quiet and spotted human footprints, leading him and Zhu Fan to suspect someone had passed through and drawn away or defeated the Soul Beasts.
• Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan heard a battle while making camp and hurried toward the sounds to check for danger and possible gains.
• Dai Chengfeng saw a five-ringed woman fighting a demon wolf while a two-ringed girl in a Heaven Dou Imperial Academy uniform healed her with a pink Begonia Flower Martial Soul, and he recognized the girl’s remarkable healing ability.

Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan rescued Ye Lingling and Bai Xue from a Gale Demon Wolf in the Star Dou Great Forest. Dai Chengfeng hoped that saving Medical Saint Ye Renxin’s granddaughter would help him learn about immortal herbs.

• Dai Chengfeng recognized Ye Lingling’s Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul and urged Zhu Fan to help her and Bai Xue.
• Zhu Fan used Nether Flash to reach Ye Lingling and Bai Xue before Dai Chengfeng, saving them from the Gale Demon Wolf.
• Dai Chengfeng considered Ye Lingling the best way to gain medicinal herb knowledge from her grandfather, Ye Renxin.
• Zhu Fan killed the Gale Demon Wolf with his sixth skill, Nether Heart Piercing Claw.
• Bai Xue introduced herself and Ye Lingling, and both thanked Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan for saving them.

After discovering that Ye Lingling possessed the Nine Heart Begonia martial soul, Dai Chengfeng considered recruiting her and her grandfather for the Star Luo Empire. Back at camp, he found a direction for developing his own soul skill and chose the spear as its foundation, naming it the White Tiger Overlord Spear.

• Dai Chengfeng recognized Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia martial soul and hoped to bring her and Ye Renxin to the Star Luo Empire.
• Bai Xue admitted she had suspected Dai Chengfeng and Zhu Fan of having ulterior motives, and she and Ye Lingling resolved to apologize.
• Zhu Fan asked how Dai Chengfeng identified Ye Lingling's martial soul, and Dai Chengfeng explained that he wanted talented Soul Masters to serve the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Chengfeng studied the Great Sumeru Hammer and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, then decided to build a powerful self-created soul skill step by step.
• Dai Chengfeng chose the spear as the foundation for his future technique and called it the White Tiger Overlord Spear.

Dai Chengfeng developed the first form of his self-created spear skill by combining the Overlord Spear Technique with the Great Sumeru Hammer and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer. After unleashing a devastating strike, he left Zhu Fan stunned by the power of a Soul Grandmaster’s technique, while two onlookers watched from the woods.

• Dai Chengfeng chose Xiang Yu’s Overlord Spear Technique as the basis for a spear skill suited to his strength and Heavenly White Tiger Martial Soul.
• Dai Chengfeng practiced the spear’s eight forms outside his tent, refining them with the power and techniques of the Great Sumeru Hammer and Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Zhu Fan woke to Dai Chengfeng’s Soul Power fluctuations and watched him practice, realizing he was creating a self-made Soul Skill.
• Dai Chengfeng broke through and named his first form City Destroyer, striking with enough force to split trees and shatter boulders while breaking his spear.
• Zhu Fan praised Dai Chengfeng as a peerless genius, while two Little Heads watched from the nearby woods in shock.

After Dai Chengfeng demonstrates his newly created spear skill, Bai Xue and Ye Lingling apologize and join him and Zhu Fan on the journey to Heaven Dou City. Their trip goes smoothly, and after about three and a half months, Ye Lingling points out the city ahead.

• Bai Xue realizes Dai Chengfeng used a self-created soul skill, then apologizes with Ye Lingling for watching him train.
• Dai Chengfeng asks for a map and agrees to travel with Bai Xue and Ye Lingling, hoping to meet Ye Renxin, Ye Lingling's grandfather.
• Dai Chengfeng explains that Ye Renxin's help may be crucial to his plans, while Zhu Fan learns the Medical Saint's identity.
• The next morning, the four set out together, and they travel through the Star Dou Great Forest without encountering any strong Soul Beasts.
• After roughly three and a half months on the road, Ye Lingling points out Heaven Dou City.